Two Chinese nationals face 20 years in prison after being caught and convicted of submitting over 5,000 fake iPhones worth more than $3 million to Apple with the goal of having them replaced with genuine devices. […]
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For years, cybersecurity experts have been warning organizations of the importance of identity and access management processes — including password management and protection against compromise of multifactor authentication — to secure IT assets. A new report from IBM, released Wednesday, suggests failure to do that is increasingly costing firms badly. Abusing valid accounts was in […]
A threat actor is using an open-source network mapping tool named SSH-Snake to look for private keys undetected and move laterally on the victim infrastructure. […]
CISA, the FBI, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shared a list of defense measures U.S. water utilities should implement to better defend their systems against cyberattacks […]
Both technical details and proof-of-concept exploits are available for the two vulnerabilities ConnectWise disclosed earlier this week for ScreenConnect, its remote desktop and access software. […]
The U.S. State Department is now also offering rewards of up to $15 million to anyone who can provide information about LockBit ransomware gang members and their associates. […]
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A patch warning from ConnectWise, the latest ransomware news, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Business applications provider ConnectWise is urging IT administrators to take quick action to patch two critical vulnerabilities. They are in […]
Eight months ago, Geoffrey Hinton, the esteemed professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who resigned his post at Google over concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) advances, stated in a speech at Collision 2023 that the world is “entering a period of huge uncertainty.” When he speaks, people listen, due in large part to the […]
VMware urged admins today to remove a discontinued authentication plugin exposed to authentication relay and session hijack attacks in Windows domain environments via two security vulnerabilities left unpatched. […]
A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called ‘VoltSchemer’ can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone’s voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger. […]